Now is it me, or is Quentin Tarantino one of the most over-rated writers and directors working in cinema today?
For over fifteen years he's been foisting his b-movie cast off's onto a strangely accepting audience - an audience who seemingly believe his so-called post modern, post ironic take on what are essentially cheap exploitation flicks give his films a certainly arch intellectuality.
This is quite clearly rubbish, as no amount of polish can disguise the fact that his films are clunky, derivative and emotionally vacuous.
Take Kill Bill vol two (possibly the worst film ever made) for example. Even if you brush aside the preposterous opening sequence at the wedding, or the Bride's miraculous escape from being buried alive, or indeed the cringe-worthy sequences with her wizened old trainer, you can't possibly forgive the lazy way in which Tarantino wraps everything up. Does he end the film with a clever, elegant denouement leaving us amazed at the subtlety of his writing? No. He shoots David Carradine with a truth serum, who then rather conveniently explains the paper-thin plot with a lengthy chunk of exposition.
Where's the skill in that? It smacks of desperation to me and of someone who's run out of ideas.
Oh, and don't get me started on Pulp Fiction. Any film trying to resurrect the moribund career of John Travolta deserves to remain on the cutting room floor.

No, if anything he's a better salesman than a filmmaker - fooling people with his effusive love of the subject, into believing he's a man of originality and talent.
Of course nothing I write will dissuade some of you from rushing out to watch his latest epic, Death Proof.
What I would say though is anyone who knowingly goes to see a film staring Kurt Russell, as a disgruntled stuntman who murders people with his car, deserve everything they get.
S*** sandwich without the bread.